A Wilderness Excursion Through the Bible Part 4 – Yearning

How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (Psalm 84:1-2)

I want this Psalm to be my prayer. I want to want God like this. I want to genuinely sing out with the Psalmist a few verses later, Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere (84:10).

But, sadly, that isnt the typical yearning of my heart. I am often, as C.S. Lewis says in The Weight of Glory, like an...